Warning! iPhone bugs: Alarms not working in 2011

One of our Australian forum members, TrAJik let us know that his iPhone alarm failed to wake him up this morning, January 1, 2011 (Australia time) and doing a quick look around the web it seems like he is not alone.

UPDATE: According to comments below, this affects **ONE TIME ALARMS* rather than recurring ones, so the opposite fix should work:

Tap Clock

Tap Edit

Tap your alarm

Tap Repeat

Set a repeat interval

Tap Save

iOS 4.2 fixed that bug. Will we have to wait for an iOS 4.3 this time? If you're experiencing the problem and if you've found any other fixes, let us know in the comments below or help trouble shoot in our iPhone Forums.

UDPATE 3: Engadget confirms it's one time alarms that are causing the problem, not repeats.

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Would a work-around for repeating alarm be just to create an appointment in Calendar that repeats, or is this affecting Calendar notifications as well?
(And I realize no one wants to see "Wake Up" on their calendar every day, but just a thought)

buuuhhuuu, such a big deal =P
Hey listen up everyone, start sell all your iphones 'cause theres a major bug with the alarm at the very first day of the year!!!
PS: but the rest of the year you're safe!

@Dewey
I was just coming back to this to ask the same thing. I could see the daylight savings time bug but new years? Sucks because I use my phone as an alarm. Hope they fix it soon, if not it's not too big of a deal I'll find another app or source of alarm clock.
But enough of what I'll do if it's not fixed fast since no one cares nor should they...anyone know what's causing this?

So Y2K was a problem because programmers took shortcuts and only used two-digits to specify the year. When Apple wrote iOS in thd middle of the decade, did they only use one digit? Is the Alarm set (internally) for 2001?

I would agree that in the main this is a small problem and in the great scheme of things is not "Life threatening" but that is no excuse for not carrying out proper testing before releasing products.
In the Military an alarm not going off can seriously affect mission targets. Come on Apple, I love my iPhone but you need to get a grip, you're not Microsoft ;-)

I've got an iPhone 4 on iOS 4.2.1, and I woke up at 11:00am here in the UK because the alarm failed to go off. It's not a big deal for me yet as I'm not due to go back to work until the 4th of Jan (one of the benefits of socialism lol). I tried the recurring alarm fix and it seems to work okay, it's not that big a deal really.

I tried changed the date to 3rd of January and its fixed automatically...
It is an easter egg by Apple's programmer.. Those guys just want iPhone user get a rest in holiday... LOL!
Good Work!! Happy New Year!!

I set the one time alarm last night, but was worried I would not get up (secondary to lack of sleep, 1.5 hr - new years party). I set a count down timer as a back up (thank you Lord), otherwise I would have missed my flight! I thought to myself, I must have been sleeping very heavy to not even hear the 1st alarm.

The assumption that it fixes itself on January 3rd is dangerous. Obviously the logic in the alarm is flawed. Who's to say it won't stop working again in January 11th, or February 1st, or even January 1st 2012?
The frustrating part is that Apple will probably barely acknowledge the problem and not issue a fix for weeks or months.

What the heck, Apple? Is it so %%%^%!!! hard to write a calendar app that can handle a new year???
As a software engineer who has dealt with these kinds of issued, I can tell you it is NOT that hard. Or it shouldnt be.

Twice I have slept through the start of my shift due to apples incompetence to write a decent program... A simple alarm clock program..... Ffs... Get your game on apple!!
Am now using my old nokia permanently plugged in on charge next to bed as an alarm as apple has proved itself to be too #*%^ing unreliable...
iPhone = junk

Surely the alarm going off makes the product unreliable. I mean come on thats what we all buy the iPhone for, for an alarm clock!
And why should apple be ashamed for screwing up the jailbreak? It voids their warranty, if they could find out the device was jail broken . It's a hack. They have nothing to be ashamed about. You just want to cry like a little baby.

I was 2 hours late for work! But after a bit of research I found that if I changed the date to the 3rd of January the alarm works! I know we shouldn't have to do this but if you need the alarm during the day that's the quick fix.

Just go in and set the time and day from automatic to manual and set it to at least Jan. 3rd. I tried everytign else and nothing worked. With today being Jan 1st and my phone thinking its the 3rd, the alarm works normally now.

If the alarm does in fact fix itself on the third...the only days affected are Saturday and Sunday...a very small minority will actually require the alarm to work on the weekend without losing their jobs lol
Did apple do this intentionally so that they could offer a fix which many will require and for many will require to unjailbreak their phones?